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Patricia Kay Youngson: A good test for your grammar

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02/22/2016 07:05:05 PM MST

There have been a few letters decrying the decline of standard grammar and poor editing. My grammar, I am sure, isn't perfect, but there are a few egregious usages that bug me. My main complaint at this time is frequently hearing this kind of sentence: "Me and George went to the movie." We would never say: "Me went to the movie." but somehow when two people are involved, the former seems alright. Another frequent error is "Betty gave the dog to George and I." Again, we would never say "Betty gave the dog to I." If a person would prefer to use standard English, it would help to try that type of sentence with the "I" or "me" in it by itself and not making the sentence about you and another person. Then, you can hear whether you should use "I" or "me." You can't really blame anyone, since it is the nature of language to change and the more often we hear a nonstandard usage, the more correct it sounds to us. There isn't much we can do to stop language from changing, but I want to do what I can.

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